title: Functional requirements regarding medical registries--preliminary results.
abstract: The term medical registry is used to reference tools and processes to support clinical or epidemiologic research or provide a data basis for decisions regarding health care policies. In spite of this wide range of applications the term registry and the functional requirements which a registry should support are not clearly defined. This work presents preliminary results of a literature review to discover functional requirements which form a registry. To extract these requirements a set of peer reviewed articles was collected. These set of articles was screened by using methods from qualitative research. Up to now most discovered functional requirements focus on data quality (e. g. prevent transcription error by conducting automatic domain checks).
authors.affiliation: Research Division for eHealth and Telemedicine, UMIT - University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, Hall in Tyrol, Austria.
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Oberbichler
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hörbst
mesh_terms: D057225:Data Mining / Q000379:methods*; D016208:Databases, Factual; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D010865:Pilot Projects; D012042:Registries; D009626:Terminology as Topic